i see you googled, it's ok to be tricked by things like the andy hoax, i def "believed" jussie and the georgia thing on first reading. the covington catholic thing is weird because the rightwing "debunking" is flatly incorrect -- they were clearly being shitheads to that guy -- the thing is teens are always shitheads, and the way the do it reveals more about the context they find themselves in than things internal to the kids, so acting like they were irredeemable was too harsh. try this:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/teenage-pricks-pareene
of course my believing jussie on first glance is not taken as serious evidence in the media (though i do think he did a good thing, unintentionally, by taking a few chicago pd officers away from their torture black sites for however long it took to stick him) etc of my political views the way andy's noax will be used to smear antifa at a time when theres great need and scant evidence to do so. think ive posted before about the coming threat of left-wing terrorism that 1) doesnt exist and 2) will soon be the media's abiding concern.
about your concern about chinese censorship and survalience (valid imo): surely you must support outlawing palantir in this country, correct? and also did you see the propublica story on the cpb facebook group?
https://www.propublica.org/article/...s-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes
does this set off any alarms?